{"id":5505,"date":"2026-03-14T08:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/world-data-symposium-to-accelerate-industrys-data-tech-and-cybersecurity-transformation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:06:26","slug":"world-data-symposium-to-accelerate-industrys-data-tech-and-cybersecurity-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/world-data-symposium-to-accelerate-industrys-data-tech-and-cybersecurity-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"World Data Symposium to accelerate industry&#8217;s data, tech, and cybersecurity transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (IATA) will maintain the 2026 version of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iata.org\/wds\">World Data Symposium (WDS)<\/a> in Singapore on eighth and ninth April.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The upcoming Symposium will carry collectively knowledge, expertise, and cybersecurity leaders to share concepts and showcase actual use circumstances round three themes driving transformation in aviation:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utilizing knowledge to drive operational effectivity and stronger strategic decision-making;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthening cybersecurity readiness and resilience throughout your entire aviation worth chain; and.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leveraging AI and automation to remodel operational efficiency and improve passenger expertise.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on IATA senior vice-president for info and knowledge Kim Macaulay: \u201cInformation is one in all aviation\u2019s strongest strategic property. The IATA World Information Symposium is the place aviation and expertise professionals share experience and speed up progress towards a wiser, safer, and extra related future. Two well timed focus areas for this second version will take a look at how AI matches into aviation\u2019s digital future, and deep dive into making aviation extra cyber-resilient. Because the tempo of digital innovation accelerates, WDS is a crucial check-in the place these driving digital innovation can take inventory of worldwide developments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>What to anticipate at WDS 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trying into the important thing points in additional particulars, the WDS program will embody the next periods:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CEO Panel: Digital Transformation in Aviation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open AI within the Aviation Business<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Securing the Digital Flight Path: Agentic AI, Cloud Safety, and Aviation Resilience<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Twins in Aviation and Airports<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigating At present\u2019s Turbulence, Securing Tomorrow\u2019s Skies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Arenas to Airports: How Sensible Stadium Tech Can Encourage Aviation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay-innovation Tales from Korea\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the identical time, official airline associate Singapore Airways will be a part of the discussions with contributions from chief government Goh Choon Phong, in addition to senior vice-president for info expertise George Wang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IATA workforce will embody director-general Willie Walsh, Kim Macaulay, and senior vice-president and chief economist Marie Owens Tomsen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Different audio system are as follows:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capt. Nasaruddin A. Bakar, President &amp; Group CEO, Malaysia Aviation Group<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chai Eamsiri, Chief Government Officer, Thai Airways<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olivier Beaujean, VP &amp; Chief Data Officer, Cargolux<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masaya Fukushima, Vice President of System Administration Division, Japan Airways<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pratik Patel, International VP Buyer Operations, DHL International Forwarding<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yanling Liu, SVP Airport Ops and Transformation, Changi Airport Group<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bum-ho Kim, Vice President, Incheon Worldwide Airport Company<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pablo Fernandez Kruk, VP Digital Technique, Airways AI Studio, Golant<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Fairman, Chief Data Officer &amp; Chief Safety Officer APAC, Netskope<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrew Sellers, VP Expertise Technique and Enablement, Confluent<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){\n  if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)\n}(window, document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '253148141107383');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traveldailymedia.com\/iata-world-data-symposium-to-accelerate-industrys-data-tech-and-cybersecurity-transformation\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (IATA) will maintain the 2026 version of its World Data Symposium (WDS) in Singapore on eighth and ninth April.\u00a0 The upcoming Symposium will carry collectively knowledge, expertise, and cybersecurity leaders to share concepts and showcase actual use circumstances round three themes driving transformation in aviation: Utilizing knowledge to drive operational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"World Data Symposium to accelerate industry's data, tech, and cybersecurity transformation - Travelwithdani","description":"The Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (IATA) will maintain the 2026 version of its World Data Symposium (WDS) in Singapore on eighth and ninth April.\u00a0 The upc"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2979,2982,2977,2980,2978,2981,2983,2421],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-guide","tag-accelerate","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data","tag-industrys","tag-symposium","tag-tech","tag-transformation","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelwithdani.org\/bookings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}